Cops have made an arrest in the killing of a Bronx woman found dead on Halloween. (Getty images)

The 53-year-old live-in boyfriend of a woman beaten to death on Halloween has been arrested in the grisly slaying, police said Saturday.

Robert Wuria is facing murder and manslaughter charges in the Oct. 31 death of Ruth Capece, 52.

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The body of Capece, who suffered several blows to the head that caused bleeding into her brain, was found inside the couple’s Valentine Ave. apartment near E. Fordham Road in Fordham Manor at about 4:30 p.m.on Halloween. Wuria had called police to their home, claiming he’d found her dead. The two had been a couple for years, police sources said.

On Wednesday, the city Medical Examiner classified Capece’s death a homicide. Investigators arrested Wuria Friday; his arraignment was pending Saturday.

Wuria told police that Capece was alive when he left to go to the store, and was dead when he returned, according to neighbors.

“When the thing happened, and he was crying and everything, I went out, because it was my neighbor, and I gave him a hug,” said one tenant, who would only identify herself as Jordana.

“I can’t believe this mother------ gave me a hug, and he killed her,” she said. “She was a lovely person. Him? I don’t know him.”

Tenants nicknamed Capece “Lovie” because she used to call everyone that, neighbors said.

“I had no idea that she was over there, demised (on Halloween),” neighbor Jay McCallister said Saturday. “Just to know someone, that you live right here on the same floor as, who passes away — it was a little shocking.”